Just putting this one up. Match takes place in St. Joseph's Park Knockmore on 31st of August at 7pm. I'm not entirely sure of the whole line up, but on the Mayo side Martin Carney, Liam McHale, Ciaran McDonald, TJ Kilgallon, Kevin McStay, Willie Joe Padden as well as our own Ray Dempsey, Kevin Staunton and Kevin O'Neill will feature. Meanwhile Joe Brolly, Padraic Joyce, Bernard Flynn, Eeamon O'Hara, Tony McManus and Martin McHugh will feature for Rest of Ireland. Any donation welcome with all proceeds going to Cystic Fibrosis.
Sounds like a good day. Will be a carnival like atmosphere in the lead up to the AI final.
Will Go just to see Joe get rugby tackled .Should be good craic all the same .
So many great Mayo players who never won a celtic cross. I hope this team can do it.
Quote from: seafoid on August 19, 2013, 08:11:48 AM
So many great Mayo players who never won a celtic cross. I hope this team can do it.
it's only a charity match Seafoid no cetic cross medals to be won ;)
Is this a cynical ploy to get Ciaran Mc Donald back into the reckoning. Can Mc Hale stay on the field for the full 70. Who will bandage Wilie Joe? It is great to see the old names back out.
Quote from: Farrandeelin on August 19, 2013, 07:18:38 AM
Just putting this one up. Match takes place in St. Joseph's Park Knockmore on 31st of August at 7pm. I'm not entirely sure of the whole line up, but on the Mayo side Martin Carney, Liam McHale, Ciaran McDonald, TJ Kilgallon, Kevin McStay, Willie Joe Padden as well as our own Ray Dempsey, Kevin Staunton and Kevin O'Neill will feature. Meanwhile Joe Brolly, Padraic Joyce, Bernard Flynn, Eeamon O'Hara, Tony McManus and Martin McHugh will feature for Rest of Ireland. Any donation welcome with all proceeds going to Cystic Fibrosis.
Farr is there a webpage. Want to put it up on FB. This is one charity i have allot of time for. Friend from Donegal recently had a lung transplant and other friends family from Westport are sufferers.
No webpage I'm afraid. Its the Knockmore supporters group along with Kevin O'Neill that are organising it. ONeill's cousin suffers from it too.
Tony Mac will make mincemeat of Mayo, as usual.
Just to get this to the top of the pile again.
Great Cause and should draw a crowd with the feel good GAA factor in the county.
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Good honest evenings entertainment! Well done to all involved. Ciarán Mac still can make the passes. And judging from the mauling for photos and autographs Brolly is a popular man this side of the world? But the Man who stole the show.......Local man Padraig Brogan.....Legend!
What was the score?
Any match report?
Quote from: mayogodhelpus@gmail.com on August 31, 2013, 09:39:34 PM
What was the score?
Any match report?
3-10 to 3-12 and don't ask me who won?
Hard to put a match report together for it as players were coming on and going off and coming back on again. Some lads still in great shape, Geezer, Maurice Sheridan, John Casey, Ciaran Mac, John Finn, Colm Mac, Kevin O'Neill, Brolly (yes Brolly), Liam McHale, Anthony Egan, to name a few.
Padraig Brogan stole the show. Played the first 15 minutes and the last ten. The home crowd really love him! And you can see has legend status by lough Conn.
Good banter, photos and autographs after the game. Great craic, great reminiscing, great entertainment and a great Charity to support.
Fantastic to see 'The Bomber ' Brogan in action once more. The best player that I have ever seen, bar none. What might have been for club and county............... Fair play to him for turning out tonight and great to see such a large number of former greats turn up for the event. Well done to all involved and to Brolly, Flynn, McGeeney, McHugh etc. for giving up of their time to come down and support the event.
Some of these guys are still in mighty good shape. Eugene McHale who must be 55+ was flying.
To all my Crossmolina mates.......it must have been worth the journey alone to see McDonald tog out in a Knockmore jersey ;D
Heard there was a great crowd there tonight and some very enjoyable football too.
Quote from: saffronandblue on August 31, 2013, 10:23:05 PM
Fantastic to see 'The Bomber ' Brogan in action once more. The best player that I have ever seen, bar none. What might have been for club and county............... Fair play to him for turning out tonight and great to see such a large number of former greats turn up for the event. Well done to all involved and to Brolly, Flynn, McGeeney, McHugh etc. for giving up of their time to come down and support the event.
Some of these guys are still in mighty good shape. Eugene McHale who must be 55+ was flying.
To all my Crossmolina mates.......it must have been worth the journey alone to see McDonald tog out in a Knockmore jersey ;D
Did Bernie Flynn tog out?
I heard he'd be there're but I thought he'd be unable to play because of his injuries.
Some of ye may recall that he was in the news for all the wrong reasons about two years ago. Seems he is badly affected by arthritis and needs expensive medical treatment to help him cope with the pain and general debilitation.
What brought this story into the news was the fact that the Meath County Board seems to have refused to pay any money towards his medical costs.
When the story broke, he was interviewed by Newstalk and a few newspapers ran with the story but it gradually faded into the background and I've heard no more about his injuries or his medical costs since then.
If he turned out last night, he must have made a miraculous recovery or else the account of his condition was greatly exaggerated to begin with.
Quote from: Lar Naparka on August 31, 2013, 11:21:28 PM
Quote from: saffronandblue on August 31, 2013, 10:23:05 PM
Fantastic to see 'The Bomber ' Brogan in action once more. The best player that I have ever seen, bar none. What might have been for club and county............... Fair play to him for turning out tonight and great to see such a large number of former greats turn up for the event. Well done to all involved and to Brolly, Flynn, McGeeney, McHugh etc. for giving up of their time to come down and support the event.
Some of these guys are still in mighty good shape. Eugene McHale who must be 55+ was flying.
To all my Crossmolina mates.......it must have been worth the journey alone to see McDonald tog out in a Knockmore jersey ;D
Did Bernie Flynn tog out?
I heard he'd be there're but I thought he'd be unable to play because of his injuries.
Some of ye may recall that he was in the news for all the wrong reasons about two years ago. Seems he is badly affected by arthritis and needs expensive medical treatment to help him cope with the pain and general debilitation.
What brought this story into the news was the fact that the Meath County Board seems to have refused to pay any money towards his medical costs.
When the story broke, he was interviewed by Newstalk and a few newspapers ran with the story but it gradually faded into the background and I've heard no more about his injuries or his medical costs since then.
If he turned out last night, he must have made a miraculous recovery or else the account of his condition was greatly exaggerated to begin with.
You sound a bit like an insurance investigator there Lar ;)
Quote from: Lar Naparka on August 31, 2013, 11:21:28 PM
Quote from: saffronandblue on August 31, 2013, 10:23:05 PM
Fantastic to see 'The Bomber ' Brogan in action once more. The best player that I have ever seen, bar none. What might have been for club and county............... Fair play to him for turning out tonight and great to see such a large number of former greats turn up for the event. Well done to all involved and to Brolly, Flynn, McGeeney, McHugh etc. for giving up of their time to come down and support the event.
Some of these guys are still in mighty good shape. Eugene McHale who must be 55+ was flying.
To all my Crossmolina mates.......it must have been worth the journey alone to see McDonald tog out in a Knockmore jersey ;D
Did Bernie Flynn tog out?
I heard he'd be there're but I thought he'd be unable to play because of his injuries.
Some of ye may recall that he was in the news for all the wrong reasons about two years ago. Seems he is badly affected by arthritis and needs expensive medical treatment to help him cope with the pain and general debilitation.
What brought this story into the news was the fact that the Meath County Board seems to have refused to pay any money towards his medical costs.
When the story broke, he was interviewed by Newstalk and a few newspapers ran with the story but it gradually faded into the background and I've heard no more about his injuries or his medical costs since then.
If he turned out last night, he must have made a miraculous recovery or else the account of his condition was greatly exaggerated to begin with.
Yeah, he togged out! Got a hefty challenge from Gary Ruane near the end of the game. Being honest the brakes were not working well for Gary at the time.
Quote from: saffronandblue on August 31, 2013, 10:23:05 PM
Fantastic to see 'The Bomber ' Brogan in action once more. The best player that I have ever seen, bar none. What might have been for club and county...............
I don't suppose Bomber has any sons yet?? If we could get himself and Cora together, we'd have some footballers!!
Quote from: Lar Naparka on August 31, 2013, 11:21:28 PM
Quote from: saffronandblue on August 31, 2013, 10:23:05 PM
Fantastic to see 'The Bomber ' Brogan in action once more. The best player that I have ever seen, bar none. What might have been for club and county............... Fair play to him for turning out tonight and great to see such a large number of former greats turn up for the event. Well done to all involved and to Brolly, Flynn, McGeeney, McHugh etc. for giving up of their time to come down and support the event.
Some of these guys are still in mighty good shape. Eugene McHale who must be 55+ was flying.
To all my Crossmolina mates.......it must have been worth the journey alone to see McDonald tog out in a Knockmore jersey ;D
Did Bernie Flynn tog out?
I heard he'd be there're but I thought he'd be unable to play because of his injuries.
Some of ye may recall that he was in the news for all the wrong reasons about two years ago. Seems he is badly affected by arthritis and needs expensive medical treatment to help him cope with the pain and general debilitation.
What brought this story into the news was the fact that the Meath County Board seems to have refused to pay any money towards his medical costs.
When the story broke, he was interviewed by Newstalk and a few newspapers ran with the story but it gradually faded into the background and I've heard no more about his injuries or his medical costs since then.
If he turned out last night, he must have made a miraculous recovery or else the account of his condition was greatly exaggerated to begin with.
He had some serious work done alright, but has made a fairly good recovery. I guess the Meath county board would argue that he finished playing with Meath at about 25 years old (open to correction here, but he was quite young), but played for another 6/7 years with Mullingar Shamrocks. Certainly one year he did his cruciate in the Leinster club championship in November and still played the first round of the Westmeath Championsip the following April. Pushed himself too hard and is paying for it now with replacement knees and hip.
Poor Joe Brolly is still under the weather after his late night in Knockmore!
Quote from: saffronandblue on September 01, 2013, 02:10:33 PM
Poor Joe Brolly is still under the weather after his late night in Knockmore!
He was definitely the last to leave the pitch with Autographs and also guess he was last to leave the club bar!